US Patent Issued to Veiovia on Feb. 4 for "Externally validated proof of work for appending a block record to a blockchain with a mining node" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,661, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Veiovia Ltd. (York, Great Britain).

"Externally validated proof of work for appending a block record to a blockchain with a mining node" was invented by Roxana Iuliana Teodor (York, Great Britain), Peter Damian Ashton (York, Great Britain), Remy Lyon (York, Great Britain) and Siamak Fayyaz Shahandashti (York, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing an externally verifiable proof of work as immutable evidence of computational work completed by a mining node to generate a private data output, the proof of work for use in appending a block record to a blockchain compri...